User:Dagterje

Dag Terje Filip Endresen


I am Norwegian and walked my childhood days in Arendal located in the south of Norway. I received my university training at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Group in Trondheim, Norway. The diploma thesis for my masters degree was on gene expression in prokaryotes (Bacteria). I live in Malmö, Sweden since 1999.

Database developer, Nordic Gene Bank, NGB, Sweden
I have been working at the Nordic Gene Bank, NGB, since 1999 as database developer. From 2002 to 2005 I was the head of IT and documentation. Since 2006 I am responsible for the international IT co-operation projects at NGB. My main responsibilities at NGB involve the development of the institute Germplasm information system, SESTO and the strategic planning of the international IT activities. The NGB germplasm information system, SESTO, is a regional genebank documentation system in use by more institutes than only the NGB in Sweden. Genebanks in the neighbouring Nordic and Baltic countries also use the system from their remote locations to manage the data on their local germplasm collections. Presently all the data is stored in the NGB database at location in Sweden, but we are experimenting together with the Vavilov institute in Russia to implement a version of SESTO at location in St Petersburg for the Russian germplasm collection.

Data interoperability consultant, IPGRI
Last year I was working as IT consultant on data interoperability at IPGRI headquarters in Rome. My main responsibilities was development of a Central Repository and Registry for the GenerationChallenge Programme together with Tom Hazekamp and Milko Skofic. See http://gcpcr.grinfo.net.